Events

Steve McKay Professor McKay examines the performance of masculinities among a group of men often considered exemplars of masculinity—merchant sailors. The talk explores their gender projects across liminal space (ocean-going ships) and in productive and reproductive spheres. Professor McKay is co-editor of the forthcoming New Routes for Diaspora Studies (Indiana) and working on Born to […]

Mary Flanagan Propositions from a Critical Play Perspective If games always hold within them cultural beliefs, norms, and human values, how are designers to tackle the vexing responsibility of designing digital games? In this talk, Flanagan examines the topics of games and values, games and art, the history of technology and games, and motivation. How […]

The Living Writers Reading Series presents Peter Orner. Peter Orner is a human rights lawyer, and editor and writer of novels and short stories. His works include: Esther Stories, The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo, Underground America: Narratives of Undocumented Lives, and the soon-to-be-released Love and Shame and Love: A Novel. Orner has been awarded […]

This Science and Justice Meeting will feature a film by Ella von der Haide, a Dipl.-Ing. of Urban and Regional Planning, Garden Activist and feminist Filmmaker from Germany.  She will show one of four feature films she has made about urban community gardens and their connections to emancipatory social movements in South Africa, Argentina, Germany […]

Today, Jeju Island is best known for “its booming tourism, its hardy diving women, and its lush orange groves” (John Merrill).  Touted as a romantic honeymoon destination and lucrative site for foreign investment, Jeju is, however, far from a paradise.  Prior to June 25, 1950, the purported start of the Korean War, Jeju, deemed a […]

The Eternal Frame The Center of Visual and Performance Studies presents Temporalities of Reenactment: A Speaker Series: "The Eternal Frame:  An Artist’s Reenactment of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy", a Screening and Conversation with Film & Digital Media Professor Emeritus Chip Lord and Professor Margaret Morse. The Eternal Frame was a project by Ant Farm and T.R. Uthco, 1975, that […]

The Museum and Curatorial Studies (MACS) Research Cluster presents: Nadja Durbach, Associate Professor, History and Comparative Gender & Sexuality University of Utah: Nadja Durbach Performing Race at the Victorian Freak Show While scholars have examined the display of non-Western peoples at Victorian exhibitions, and noted that many of the “cannibals” and “savages” who performed were actually fakes, none […]

Gildas Hamel Professor Hamel is working on a history of religious representations in Hellenistic and Roman Palestine and the notion of monotheism. He examines recent histories of monolatry and monotheism and accounts of religious mediations, asking whether monotheism can be explained as a response to the Babylonian and Persian empires, or as an episode in […]

Panelists: Vilashini Cooppan, “Affective History and Literary Studies” Associate Professor, Literature, UCSC Professor Cooppan’s recent work includes an article in Trauma and Memory in South African Writing (Rodopi, 2011), and a book project on affect, historical violence and world literature. Sharon Daniel, “Affect in/through New Media Documentary” Professor, Film and Digital Media and DANM, UCSC […]